Final leg of Viking Voyage today

Charlottetown mariner Geoff Ralling is on the final leg of his round-trip journey to L’Anse aux Meadows in northern Newfoundland to P.E.I.

After a rough 14-hour crossing in high winds and waves from the Iles-de-la-Madeleine to Souris with his wife, Jane Ralling, and Guardian reporter Mary MacKay on Sunday, he made his way to Wood Islands.

This summer, Charlottetown mariner Geoff Ralling is sailing a new version of a more than 1,000-year-old voyage to Vinland, following the route depicted above that Norse scholars say Vikings may have taken to access the “land of wine”.